On 07/17/2007 01:27 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
Larger soft pages waste tremendous amounts of memory (mostly in page
cache) for minimal benefit on, say, the typical desktop. While there
are workloads where it's a win, it's probably on a small percentage of
machines.
So it's absolutely no help in fixing our order-1 allocation problem
because we don't want to force large pages on people.
Okay. I would've expected that 4K was fairly tiny for today's loads but as
usual I'm relatively data challenged so I guess I'll take your word for it.
Bummer.
Rene.
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